King's College London - Homepage

Born in Basel (CH) I was educated at the Universities of Heidelberg and Cambridge, where I worked with John Henderson on Lucan (MPhil 2002, PhD 2006). Thereafter I was lecturer at Exeter University (October 2005- August 2007). I am currently a FAPESP funded research fellow (2012-15) at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) where I am working on a project on Cato the Elder.

I work on Latin literature where my main interest lies with Latin Epic, Latin Drama and Epigram. My book "Anatomizing Lucan – Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique"  (Ann Arbor 2012)  is mainly concerned with Lucan's poetics and epic technique. My current projects examine epitaphic gestures in Latin literature and the influence of inscriptions on literature under the auspices of intermediality. A further project ("Reconsidering Cato") studies Cato's poetics and Nachleben. 

In addition I am editing the Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy and in co-operation with Emma Buckley (St. Andrews)  have edited the Blackwell Companion to the Age of Nero (Malden 2013).

• M Dinter (2011) 'Inscriptional Intermediality in Latin Elegy ', in Latin Elegy and Hellenistic Epigram: A Tale of Two Genres at Rome pp. 7-18 [Chapter]
• Martin Dinter (2010) 'Laying down the Law – Horace’s reflection in his sententiae', in Perceptions of Horace: A Roman Poet and his Readers pp. 96-108                                                                             [Chapter]
• Martin T Dinter (2010)  'Textual Permanence: Roman Elegists and the Epigraphical Tradition' CLASSICAL WORLD, 103 (2), pp. 262-264.          [Book Review (Print)]
• Martin Dinter (2010) '…und es bewegt sich doch – der Automatismus des abgehackten Gliedes in Lukan', in Lucan between Epic Tradition and Aesthetic Innovation pp. 175-190                                             [Chapter]
• Martin T Dinter (2009)  'EPIC FROM EPIGRAM: THE POETICS OF VALERIUS FLACCUS' ARGONAUTICA' AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY, 130 (4), pp. 533-566.                                                        [Article in print Journal]
• Martin Dinter (2008) 'Tragedy and Epigram', in Papers on Ancient Literatures: Greece, Rome and the Near East pp. 213-229[Chapter]
• Martin Dinter (2005)  'Epic and Epigram - Minor Heroes in Virgil's Aeneid' CLASSICAL QUARTERLY, 55 (1), pp. 153-169.                  [Article in print Journal]
• Martin Dinter (2005) 'Lucan’s Epic Body', in Lucan im 21. Jahrhundert pp. 295-312                                                                    [Chapter]

Undergraduate

• 4AACCSC1 Myths of Greece and Rome
• 4AACCLC1 Language and Literature
• 4AACLA01 Latin Language 1
• 5AAYCL08 Literature of Empire
• 5AACCLC2 Views of Antiquity
• 6AACLT05 Latin Texts V (Poetry): Various Texts
• 6AACLT10 Latin Texts X (Verse): Various Texts
• 6AACTL20 Neronian Literature and Culture

Postgraduate

• 7AACM210 Roman Comedy
• 7AACM211 The Reception of Roman Comedy

I am interested in supervising PhD students in:

• Latin literature
• Comparative Literature
• Intermediality
• Classics and popular Culture

Title of a PhD thesis I recently supervised:

• Levels of violence in Silius Italicus

Teaching Development Grant for Empowering the Curriculum – Communicative Competence and the Role of Grammar

Visiting Professorships

• NTNU Trondheim Sept. 2010 (thanks to a grant from the Norwegian research council)
• University of Sao Paulo, Graduate School, Aug. 2012